5 December 2006
Since the bursting of the ‘Bubble Economy’, and the decade and a half of stagnation which followed, work and employment in Japan have been said on many occasions to have undergone some profound changes. This has been matched with a renewed interest among scholars in the structures, processes and cultures of work in Japan.
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In recent years, controversies over the content of Japanese history textbooks and visits to Yasukuni Shrine by Prime Minister Koizumi and other senior government officials have placed the international spotlight on the ways that Japanese people remember World War II. The lecture, based on Dr Seaton’s 2005 article in Japan Forum, will provide a critique
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This was a chance to meet photographer Robert Whitaker, the only person allowed to take photographs of the Beatles on their flights and in their hotel room during their 3 intense days performing in Tokyo. His photographs provided a unique record of their three intense days on tour in Tokyo (June 1966).
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Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–89) was a highly individualistic painter of the late Edo and early Meiji eras in Japan, his career spanning from the end of the feudal system to the beginnings of rapid modernisation. His first name meant ‘crazy studio’ and in the 1860s he developed a new genre of ‘crazy pictures’ (kyōga).
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Offering a Japanese perspective for the first time, the book tracks the role of the Japanese navy as a silent partner and active participant in the war at sea against Britain and her allies prior to Japan’s entry into the Second World War at Pearl Harbor.
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This seminar provided a rare opportunity to parallel and to explore different cultural approaches to the subject of death. The specific areas of expertise of our speakers and chairperson contributed complementary perspectives on this important theme.
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In May 2001, under the aegis of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), a special collaborative research programme was initiated to enhance intellectual exchanges, fill gaps in the existing literature, and develop new academic networks between scholars in the United Kingdom and Japan. Professor Glenn Hook, Professor Mark Williams, and Dr Naoko Shimazu, took
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This seminar will look to the Baby Boomer generations in the UK and Japan and their changing expectations of the future as they approach retirement and old age.
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This was an illustrated talk by artists Keiko Mukaide and Simon Ward by Cross Currents, who spoke about the creating works of art made from a combination of glass and ceramics, and examined the cultural differences and similarities of two artists from opposite sides of the world.
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This was the only public exhibition of the photographs taken by Robert Whitaker, (the only person allowed to take photographs of the band on their flights and in their hotel room). His photographs provided a unique record of their three intense days on tour in Tokyo.
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When Simon May took up a year-long post as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo, he was the first Briton to do so since 1882.
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Born in Tokyo in 1923, Seijun Suzuki has had a long and productive career (including over 40 films), and has inspired countless filmmakers across the globe such as Quentin Tarantino (who paid tribute to Suzuki’s’s film Tokyo Drifter in his 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1). Jim Jarmusch also paid homage to Suzuki in his 1999 film, Ghost Dog, which employs elements from Suzuki’s Branded to Kill. John Woo has named Suzuki one of the top 10 filmmakers in the world.
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